How I made it: St Helen Farm founder Angus Wielkopolski

Britain’s biggest goats’ milk producer says he was fortunate to have been in the right places at the right times with the right products

Angus Wielkopolski's 6,000 goats help to produce a turnover of £26m (Lorne Campbell)
Cartons of St Helen’s Farm goats’ milk carry not only an image of the
four-legged source of the best-selling product but also a photograph of a
customer and a story about their life.

It’s such a hit that there’s a six-month waiting list to appear on the
cartons. “We have a lot of satisfied customers who feel they are part of a
club,” said Angus Wielkopolski, the co-founder. “They don’t feel they are
just getting an anonymous product from a factory.”

The effort has clearly paid off. St Helen’s Farm turns over £26m and employs
100 people, and its goats’ milk products are stocked by all the big
supermarkets.

The older of two children, Wielkopolski was born and brought up in Nairn, a
fishing town near Inverness in the Highlands. His father had been an officer
in the Polish army but escaped to Britain in 1940 and, after marrying an